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Wellbeing Farm Wins Best Use of Local Produce at 2013 British Cookery School Awards

At a gala event held at the Vintner’s Hall in London, Celia Gaze, managing director of The Wellbeing Farm Cookery School was delighted to accept the award for ‘best use of local produce’ at the 2013 British Cookery School Awards.

The Wellbeing Farm Cookery School in Edgworth, near Bolton specialises in offers a wide range of courses and specialises in provenance and sustainability. With a real passion for teaching budding cooks from pre-school to adults, all ingredients are sourced from the land, from local farmers or from the local award-winning butcher, which co-owns the farm. All students are taught in a custom-designed cooking space that includes top of the range appliances from De Dietrich.

“In light of the fact that our business is still under a year-old, it is a real honour to win such a prestigious industry award, particularly because we were shortlisted amongst some incredibly well-respected and established cookery schools in the same category.”

De Dietrich Appliances in the new App-artment

A VIP event was held by Cornflake, a leading supplier of premium home automation systems to launch the Smart App-artment – its new experiential retail showroom in central London. The two-storey apartment, just off Tottenham Court Road is a high-end domestic property and showcases the most covetable home automation technology on the market, including intelligent and intuitive premium kitchen appliances from De Dietrich. Visitors are invited to ‘live-in’ and experience the exclusive interior-designed setting created by award-winning interior designer, April Russell.

The Smart App-artment has a number of delineated areas dedicated to the most advanced audio and visual solutions, together with entire roomsets that incorporate a separate bar and games room that easily converts into a party room, plus an in-house cinema room which enables the user to stream the latest movies, Sky or terrestrial TV. The open plan living area incorporates a stunning kitchen with in the De Dietrich Grey Pearl and White Pearl ranges, and the most advanced zoneless induction hob on the market, the Piano. Everything in the Smart App-artment is accessed and controlled by touch, and to complement the Piano the kitchen includes Intelligent Control System Ovens (ICS) with matching ICS Dishwasher, pyrolytic ovens, compact ovens and downdraft extractor.

De Dietrich announces its new association with Lancashire-based The Wellbeing Farm Cookery School

De Dietrich kitchen appliances have been exclusively chosen by Lancashire-based The Wellbeing Farm for its stunning new purpose-built Cookery School. Situated in beautiful countryside in Edgworth, near Bolton, The Wellbeing Farm Cookery School features a wide-range of regular cookery courses including Pizza and bread making; Pickling and preserving; Ice cream making; BBQ courses; Afternoon tea; Cheese making; Cupcakes; Indian cookery; Cooking and good nutrition; Children’s cookery courses; Getting ready for University and Wine and Cheese evenings. Further dedicated courses, demonstrations and events are also available throughout the year.

Executive chef of The Wellbeing Farm Cookery School is Mike Harrison, owner of Chef to Go and a chef / tutor for the Novelli Academy. Guest chefs include Justine Forrest, a regular on local radio and a specialist in ‘cooking without the calories’, and TV chef, Tom Bridge, who has most recently been filming for the ‘Great British Bake Off’. Further Specialist Butchery Courses are also available from the Wellbeing Farm, in association with award-winning Whitehead’s Butchers.

To complement the environmentally-friendly ethos of the Farm, the De Dietrich appliances featured in the Cookery School include A-10% energy-rated Ovens with Steam Injection, a Compact Combination Oven, highly efficient touch control Induction Hobs, and Hoods that feature efficient perimeter extraction.

To find out more about The Wellbeing Farm and details of forthcoming Cookery Courses, please contact:

Celebrating the achievements of the Independent and Multiple Electrical Retail sector together with manufacturers of Domestic Appliances and Consumer Electronics, the 4th annual ERT Awards were held at Commonwealth Club in Central London on 7th November 2011.

For the first time, a new Product Innovation category was added to the list of awards, which was both nominated by and voted for by the editorial team at ERT. The De Dietrich DTiM1000C Piano 'Zoneless' Induction Hob was the winner of this inaugural award, and was the only product from a major domestic appliance brand to be nominated.

In October 2011, The De Dietrich DTiM1000C Piano 'Zoneless' Induction Hob was awarded a Gold Award for Product Innovation from leading trade design title, Designer Magazine at the magazine's annual Design Awards 2011; held at the world-famous Lord's Cricket Ground in London.

This achievement recognises those products that have demonstrated genuine design innovation in the Bathrooms and Kitchen industry, such as The De Dietrich DTiM1000C Piano, that takes the 'zoneless' induction concept to new levels -delivering the ultimate in cooking freedom.

The De Dietrich DTiM1000C Piano Induction Hob has won the Judge’s Award for Innovation at the inaugural KBB Innovation Awards in association with Designer Magazine at KBB London (15th – 17th May 2011).

The revolutionary hob was chosen as the most innovative product from a shortlist of 18 finalists by a panel of industry experts including Robin Levien of Studio Levien, David Fisher, design director of Seymour Powell and Martin Allen-Smith, managing editor of Designer Magazine.

De Dietrich is renowned for groundbreaking concepts in kitchen appliances and was the first brand to introduce induction hobs to market in the 1980’s. Over the following decades the company has continued to research and develop ever more sophisticated technologies to advance the induction concept and was the first to introduce zoneless technology in 2007.

Today, De Dietrich is proud to launch The Piano; the world’s most advanced zoneless induction hob which delivers ultimate cooking freedom. Challenging all previous induction concepts, the Piano Induction Hob features total zoneless induction technology with intelligent and intuitive options to make life easier when cooking. The Piano Induction hob also incorporates full colour touchscreen technology to control the hob.